Fast cars, fancy drivers
The HinduRyan Gosling can hold a silence — and hold it with just the kind of intensity that makes the screen fizz. But let's cut to the chase: Talk about fancy cars and the fancier footwork of those at the wheel inevitably leads us to “The Car Chase”. Steven Spielberg's “Duel” takes the psychology of vehicles on the roads and drivers a notch higher — the movie is about an increasingly menacing, wordless road duel between a truck and an ordinary salesman driving a car. For some answers, turn to the documentary “Senna” — about three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna — made by Asif Kapadia, a British filmmaker of Indian descent. “I saw God,” says the increasingly spiritual-minded Senna, after winning a championship, “I just feel peace.” Perhaps it was inevitable that cars and films would become so intertwined with each other, considering how the two industries — automobiles and movies — came into being side-by-side in the 1890s along with other key advances such as electricity and the airplane.
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